Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product, data engineering, security and network teams to translate business needs into Azure data solutions.
- Define and maintain reference architectures and reusable solution blueprints for common data use cases.
- Continuously update platform standards based on Azure roadmap and new service capabilities including the technology selection.
- Ensue solutions comply with enterprise network standards (VNet design, subnets, NSGs, routing, firewalls).
- Design and enforce private connectivity patterns (Private Link, private endpoints, VNet integration, ExpressRoute/VPN).
- Embed security by design in all blueprints (identity and access management, encryption, secrets and key management).
- Integrate AI and advanced analytics into the platform approach
- Establish standards for data models, naming conventions, metadata, data quality and lifecycle management
- Lead or contribute to architecture/design reviews, ensuring adherence to platform and security standards.
- Define monitoring, logging and observability patterns (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, security tooling).